Your poem was really awesome
and it certainly made me think,
why with so much great design in our country,
the design of our economic system must stink.

Although that was probably too many syllables,
It strikes me as pitiful that we can’t do something more,
So will all these economic stimuli really help me
give more money to my favorite stores?

Or does it really matter?
Is history just one big ugly ab-ex paint splatter?
With the hipsters gettin’ down to the sound
of our society hitting the brakes but still hitting the ground.

Design for the other 99% is great
but what about the 80% of the 1% whose fate
is looking slightly more grim
because of some investment bankers’ whim?

We designers and writers have an obligation,
as critical thinking is part of our daily occupation,
to muster up our best armaments
and hope for payment in, well, karma-mints,
or something to that effect,
no it won’t be our fattest check.
But maybe, just maybe, like you said in your piece,
the holidays can bring us, instead of a Juicy Couture fleece,
enough money to get by and help enable at least,
some semblance of social and economic peace.